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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost

By Yuval Rosenberg

President Trump will deliver his first prime-time address to the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and is expected to announce that he’s sending thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. If that is the...
The Walls Are Closing In as Allies Abandon Trump

By Rob Garver

Things have looked grim for Donald Trump’s future more than once in his relatively brief career as a politician. But on Wednesday, the cracks in the edifice of his public standing were really...
Why Renegotiating NAFTA Won’t Be as Easy as Trump Says

By David Francis

As NAFTA talks get underway, there are questions about what Trump can get done when it comes to major trade deals.
Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies

By Rob Garver

If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to stop paying insurance companies a controversial set of subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act, the government will lose money...
What Happened to Trump’s Infrastructure Boom? Spending Is Actually Falling

By Rob Garver

Now, well past six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the construction industry would like to know where those infrastructure dollars he promised are. While a slowly improving economy has been...

Trump Is Headed for a Collision With the Auto Industry as NAFTA Talks Loom

By David Lawder, Reuters

The Trump administration has set a collision course with the auto industry as it launches renegotiations of the 23-year-old NAFTA trade pact this week, aiming to shrink a growing trade deficit with...
One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again

By Rob Garver

The effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which many assumed was dead or at least in a state of suspended animation for the foreseeable future, may be showing some stirring of life...
White House Advisers Insist That Trump Opposes Nazis

By Rob Garver

Nazi rallies are like the big, fat hanging curveball of American politics -- the sort of pitch any minimally competent public figure can put in the cheap seats without even thinking about it. But...
Will GOP Anger With Trump Over Charlottesville Be Different This Time?

By Rob Garver

After President Trump made brief remarks on Saturday related to the violent white nationalist protest in Virginia, the country saw something that it hadn’t seen in a while: a full-blown stampede of...
What Game Theory Tells Us About Trump’s ‘Madman’ Approach to North Korea

By Rob Garver

Is Donald Trump out of his mind? Maybe he wants North Korea to think so.

Should Women Be Drafted? How Hillary Clinton Complicates the Question

By Ciro Scotti

It turns out there may be a limit on how equal women want to be. Equal rights? Of course, you Neanderthals in easy-fit jeans. Equal pay? Isn’t it about time the ones getting the work done get paid...
We Now Know Hillary Clinton Should Have Been Indicted … but That Won’t Matter

By Edward Morrissey

By any measure, the televised statement from FBI Director James Comey provided a watershed moment in the presidential election. Never before in the agency’s history had it opened a criminal...
New $2.1 Billion Detroit-Ontario Bridge Project Hits Big Snags

By Eric Pianin

In March 2015, the U.S. and Canadian governments reached an agreement to build a new $2.1 billion bridge connecting Detroit and Ontario designed to eliminate a massive bottleneck that for decades has...
Under Fire, Lynch Removes Herself From Final Decision on Clinton Email

By Eric Pianin

Fallout from disclosure of former President Bill Clinton’s ill-advised informal chat with Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch on an airport tarmac in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this week came swiftly on...
Fiscal Neglect: Watchdog Hits Trump and Clinton for Ignoring $19 Trillion Debt

By Eric Pianin

A scathing new report by a budget watchdog group warns that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Rodham Clinton, the presumptive Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, is serious about...

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